I daresay he has told you." "Yes," chimed in Miss Kendal, "and we came here to congratulate you, only to find the mummy." "Is that the horrid thing ?" Mrs.Jasher stared with all her eyes, and timidly touched the hard green-stained wood.
"It's the case--the mummy is inside." "But I thought that the Professor opened the case to find the body of poor Sidney Bolton," argued Mrs.Jasher.
"That was a packing case in which this"-- Archie struck the old-world coffin--"was stored.

But this is the corpse of Inca Caxas, about which Don Pedro told us the other night.

How does it come to be hidden in your garden ?" "Hidden." Mrs.Jasher repeated the word with a laugh.

"There is not much hiding about it.

Why, every one can see it from the path." "And from the door of your house," remarked Hope significantly.